Gallagher

Yep, AND after seeing that,... I wouldn't eat anything from any water source that flows south of there. (Of course I've been aware of that for years), I had to caution a family about the quality of water as they were swimming right there at the small steel bridge, on a trip to the yard waste area. I could tell they weren't "locals" and they probably just found a convenient place to swim, unfortunatley they chose about the worse possible place to 'go for a dip".

Has anyone tried flyfishing for smallies on the upper James,....say from Marshfield area to Strafford. I've got a pile of different poppers & some dries I've been thinking of trying & wondered if anyone's had any luck. Thanks!

Very nice, for sure!

Good job on the pics Don. Thanks for posting those! Gallagher

Yeah,... fairly new to flyfishing. I got geared-up & started the year before last, only went a few times, then last year was pretty much a washout with all the rain + busy work schedule, so I'm trying to get my hand back into it. As for the pics, I believe Don snapped a few but they were from a distance, I'll hit him up about those soon as see what he has.

Don & I made a late afternoon trip down to Taney, got in the water around 4:30'ish & the fish seemed to take a variety of things they were presented with. We were in the vacinity of outlet #1,.. or maybe it was #2, sorry not sure which, but we were just up from that point, below the dam. They seemed to hit pretty good on a #16-#18 Grey Scud, I later swithed to a Shimp Scud of the same size & they hammered that as well, when things tapered off a bit Don was getting some serious hits on a short quickly stripped soft hackle which turned out to be very successful, during this time I was introduced to Kevin, one of Don's buddies & he was having great luck with what looked to be some sort of a chrome beaded head red something or another with legs, (sorry Kevin for the poor description) , but it worked great & he shared one with me, (thanks)! We wrapped up the afternoons' event by wading the shallower water below that point & drifted as we went. Don was able to bring 27 to the net, I was able to net 7, 3 more spit the hook on the way to the net, and I did manage to carefully miss several strikes . All in all a great afternoon! Thanks again to Don for sharing his knowledge, patience & expertise with showing a new guy the ropes. And Thanks again to Kevin for the invite for night fishing!

Nah, not anymore. But I DO still have the rubberized muscle suit so watch out! Good to hear from ya Don, maybe we can hook up sometime in the near.

I would have to say trout, as I've never tried for bass,....yet. I've been to Taney a couple of times ( successful only the first time), been to Roaring River got skunked, with the same result at Montauk. Work schedule & bad weather pretty much kept the fly gear dry last year, so I'm hoping to get back into it this season.

Hi all, I've been around on this site before & was impressed with the wealth of information one can acquire here. I'm new to the world of Flyfishing, and I hope I enjoy it enough to hang with it, if I get the hang of it, I'm sure that I will. I'll be on the forum from time to time, so thanks again, and take care!